Research Article

Physician Perceptions on Colonoscopy Quality: Results of a National Survey of Gastroenterologists

Table 5

Physician perceptions about colonoscopy quality benchmarks.

With regard to the guideline recommendation of an average withdrawal time of 6 minutes for a colonoscopy without polyps, do you feel this is…?*With regard to the guideline recommendation of an average adenoma detection rate of 15% for women and 25% for men, do you feel this is…?**

Sex 0.5920.811
0.0020.000

Years in practice 0.3200.001
0.0070.078

GI board certification 0.7860.619
0.0010.002

Practice setting 0.9890.338
0.0000.006

Productivity bonus 0.1650.920
0.0130.000

Colonoscopy volume 0.0690.664
0.0590.015

Receive quality feedback 0.0940.003
0.0190.058

Response categories include too short, about right, and too long.
Response categories include too low, about right, and too high.
Eta squared ( ) represents the proportion of variance in the dependent variable explained by the independent variable.